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Our grade six to Level 1 girls’ basketball team is travelling to Lewisporte today for the Western Provincial Championship. Good luck, girls!

This is a copy of IHMS's weekly new article Lion's Roar that appeared in The Western Star newspaper on Friday, March 13, 2015.

By: Makenzy Bishop and Cole Dumaresque

Mme. O'Dell's grade two French Immersion students display the puppets they made for their re-telling of "Goldilocks and The Three Bears". Back (left-right): Katherine Noel, Summer Gale, Noah Evans, and Craig Bishop. Front (left to right): Charlotte Mercier and Mariam Ahmad.

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Paige Walsh (left) and Telicia Young (right) and public health nurse, Patti Walsh-Sheppard. The girls each won a gift card as part of an anti-bullying presentation.

We are so thankful
for the family and community support for the MMS Reycle My Cell Campaign. Our
school was the provincial winner! We recycled 901 cell phones this year. We
were also the top school in Canada!

Last week to
celebrate Agriculture Literacy Week the grade three and four English and French
classes had a guest reader from the Department of Agriculture. The students
really enjoyed the book.

This week was Milk
Spirit Week. This week to celebration Mrs. Hodder, Mrs. George, Mme. Brett, Ms.
Park, Mme. Lachance, Mme. O’Dell and Mme Ryan’s classes each made live
broadcasts from the media centre about the importance of drinking milk.

Last week the junior
kindergarten classes did a live broadcast last from the media centre for
Nutrition Month.

On Tuesday our grade
six to Level 1 girls’ basketball team played a game against Stephenville. Thank
you to Mr. George for refereeing the game. The girls are travelling to
Lewisporte today for the Western Provincial Championship. Good luck, girls!

Our school is selling
tickets on an Apple a Day Fundraiser. Starting on March 25, 2015 we will begin
doing seven daily draws for apple products. Prizes include Ipod touches, an
Apple TV, an Ipad mini, Ipads and an 11 inch Macbook Air computer. Tickets are
on sale now for $20 each. Each ticket sold will be in the draw for all seven
prizes. There will be prizes for the students who sell the most tickets. If our
school sells all 2,032 tickets we will have a skating party to celebrate.Students are encouraged to return their
tickets as they sell them to get their name in for incentive draws. We are
halfway to our goal! There are less than 1,000 tickets left!

STARS OF THE WEEK

Congratulations to
Luke Coleman, Kate Lombard, Noah Evans, and Saleem Obeid who each won a medal
at a hockey tournament in Corner Brook last Saturday.

Congratulations to
our grade six girls’ basketball team who played in the Western Provincial
Basketball Tournament last weekend.We
would like to thank Ms. Bishop for coaching the girls at the tournament.

Congratulations to our students who participated
in the bridge building competition last weekend. The bridge built by Anna
Mackenzie, Madison Noel and Jayden Lempriere held 155 kg (300 lbs): the bridge
built by Hajra Ahmad, Maria Reynolds and Arista White held 113 kg (226 lbs);
and the bridge built by Nathan Anderson, Cameron Peddle and Douglas Mackenzie
held 71 kg (142 lbs). Our top two bridges this year actually broke our school
record for the bridge holding the most weight! Way to go everyone!

CLASS NEWS

The junior kindergarten
classes are learning about St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, they made St.
Patrick’s Day crafts. The children are also learning about the letter “k” and
the number “10”.

Mme. Brett’s
Kindergarten French Immersion class is learning the last letter of the alphabet
“z” and finishing up learning about their ancestors. They are also getting
ready for St. Patrick’s Day.

Mrs. Hodder’s
Kindergarten English class is learning about word families in language. Their
garden is producing LOTS of tomatoes and lettuce. They are so proud of their
green thumbs!

Mrs. George’s grade
one English class is learning about taking care of our world in social studies.
They are enjoying all of their St. Patrick’s Day writing and art activities.
They are busy building a leprechaun trap for Tuesday. They are really hoping to
catch one!

Mme. Ryan’s grade one
French Immersion class were working on a song with the grade two French
Immersion students about chocolate milk to perform for the live broadcast.The grade one’s were also working on math
centres and other activities to learn how to count numbers up to 100.

Ms. Park’s grade two English
class is making crafts for St. Patrick’s Day and writing about what you would
do if they found a pot of gold. In math they are learning how to add numbers to
100.

Mme. O’Dell’s grade
two French Immersion class finished their Quebéc Winter Carnival theme by
making puppets. Students had fun performing plays of different versions of
“Goldilocks and The Three Bears” in language arts class. They had a lot of fun!

Ms. Horner’s grade
three and four class is making leprecahuan traps in art class. They are hoping
luck will be on their side so they can catch one or get some of its gold. In
French they have been learning St. Patrick’s Day words. The grade three
students are started a new unit on plants in science. The grade four students
made their own instruments in science.

Mme. Lachance’s grade
three and four French Immersion class celebrated Milk Spirit Week by learning
all about animals who give milk and countries where people drink different
kinds of milk. With the other French Immersion classes they enjoyed making
homemade ice cream!

Mrs. McCarthy’s grade
five and six class started the Classroom Energy Diet Challenge this week. They
created a classroom logo and completed two challenges. In one challenge the
students had to go for one hour with no power, in the second activity they had
to reflect on what energy items in their homes were “needs” and which were
“wants”. The further challenge themselves the students gave up one “want” item
for 24 hours!

Mr. Drew Nadon’s junior high and level 1 class went
to the National Engineering and Geosciences Month bridge building competition
at the mall on Saturday. The student’s bridges were amazing! The class is busy
preparing their performance for the drama festival in three weeks and the
Rotary Music Festival next week.